Sometimes my work as a book reviewer has me read things I wouldn't necessarily pick out from a bookstore shelf. Take Chameleo: A Strange But True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, And Homeland Security for example. The title is curious, but it seems rather outlandish. Okay, I lied. I would totally pick this out from…
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and they ve actually put a number to what we found on the ground. they re saying that opium reduction, cultivation reduction, in the whole of afghanistan could be as much as 80%. so 80% lower opium cultivation this year compared to the last. in helmand, which is the opium heartland, it is as low as 99%. so 99% lower this year around. this, of course, has global ramifications. nearly all of the heroin sold in europe is made from afghan opium. 0n the ground there, we were able to see an impact on prices. so one bag of opium already costs more than five times of what it did before the ban. but experts we ve spoken to have told us that it will take a bit of time for that price rise to filter down through the chain of drug trafficking to the street price of heroin. and then the important question, what does this mean for heroin addiction in the uk, in all of europe? experts say that because it is
they re saying that opium reduction, cultivation reduction, in the whole of afghanistan could be as much as 80%. so 80% lower opium cultivation this year compared to the last. in helmand, which is the opium heartland, it is as low as 99%. so 99% lower this year around. this, of course, has global ramifications. nearly all of the heroin sold in europe is made from afghan opium. on the ground there, we were able to see an impact on prices. so one bag of opium already costs more than five times of what it did before the ban. but experts we ve spoken to have told us that it will take a bit of time for that price rise to filter down through the chain of drug trafficking to the street price of heroin. and then the important question, what does this mean for heroin addiction in the uk, in all of europe? experts say that because it is
away human flesh, and sometimes leading to amputation of infected limbs he comes every day to take care of this leg. care of his leg. reporter: this nurse says what we saw here was mild. some of them come with both hands from here to here. reporter: raquel is in recovery from heroin addiction. sober since 2016, she runs the mobile wound care program. when you were using compared to what you see now, how different is it? it s very, very different a bag of heroin would hold me six to eight hours now people are going into withdrawal within two to three hours. reporter: many users don t want tranqs. there is no fentanyl that doesn t have tranq in it.